On 20/04/2017 at 07:24:13 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Wed, 19 Apr 2017 13:20:37 -0700
> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com> escreveu:
>> > 1. Since most people agree that these form of notifications are useful,
> > should we have a standard email for it (or at least a list of things
> > which should be in that email, like commit-id, tree, maintainer,
> > mailing list and the version of the kernel it is expected to be
> > pushed for).
> > 2. Given that we all run ad-hoc infrastructure to produce these emails,
> > could we get a set of blessed scripts up on kernel.org for all
> > comers so we can use the central infrastructure rather than rolling
> > our own.
>> I suspect that this very much depends on the way each maintainer handle
> patches. For subsystems like media, where we use patchwork, notification
> comes for free with the tool.
>
I think patchwork notifications are sent only to people with a patchwork
account so this is not enough for subsystems with a lot of drive-by
contributors.
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Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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